TO MAKE A COLLECTION IN AID OF BUILDING A CHURCH ON HIS MANOR. [ Deed Book XI. ]

William Burnet Esq^' Captain Generall and Govern' in

Chief of the Provinces of New York New Jersey and

Territories thereon Dependmg in America and Vice

Admirall of the same &c.

To all Cliristian and Charitable people withm the

Provinces of New York and New Jersey in America,

sendeth Greeting --

Whereas Robert Livingston Esq^ Sole Proprietor of the Manor oi

Livingston hath proposed and doth propose to Estabhsh a Churcli

or Meeting House and to send for and Call some able and Pious

Dutch Reformed Protestant Minister from Holland according to

the Constitution and Direction of the Reformed Church in Holland

Agreeable to the Discipline And Government of the Dutch

Church as is estabhshed by the Synod at Dort in the Year 1618

and 1619 to Officiate therein for the Inhabitants and Sojourners

within the same Manor Agreeable and suitable to the Vulgar

Language and Education of the said Inhabitants, which pious work

and the Building of Such Church or Meeting House wiU require

a larger Sum of Money than Can be reasonably be expected to be

advanced by any one particular person. I being willing and

MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

Desireous to promote and Encom-age so pious an undertaking Have Therefore thought fitt to grant unto the same Robert Livingston Leave and Lycence to Collect & Receive the free and Voluntary Charity and Contribution of any of the Inhabitants within tlie said Province towards the Carrying on aud Finishing of the same ; And for his so doing this shall be to liim a sufficient Warrant Given under my hand & seal tliis Twenty first day of June Anno Domini 1721 Annoq Regni R^ Georgij Magu: Brittan. Franc, et Hib: fid: Defensoris Septimo.